STUFF HAPPENS

Poetry & prose by Alex Hickman

Notes on planting an orchard

We have lived in our house in a small village on the edge of Salisbury Plain almost 2.5 years. Gradually we make it and the garden our own, by giving both much of our time and money. We do so willingly, we are happy here, and feel lucky to have found this home. Last year […]

A poem by T.E. Lawrence

The poem serves as a dedication in T.E. Lawrence’s book The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which was first published by Lawrence in 1922. The poem was heavily edited by Robert Graves. It has always stayed with me. Just now I found myself describing someone wanting to ‘write his will across the sky and stars’, and I looked […]